{"id":40,"date":"2008-08-16T20:22:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T00:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2009-09-07T20:24:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T00:24:10","slug":"excel-twitters-20080816","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/16\/excel-twitters-20080816\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitters 20080816"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If nothing else, at least these weekly Twitters let you know that you&#8217;re not alone in your love\/hate relationship with Excel. This week we look at the Good, the Bad, and the downright Ugly.<\/p>\n<h2>The Good<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;d be happy if they&#8217;d switch to Excel. Anything&#8217;s better than ferreting the unanswered questions of out a pile of mangled Word docs<\/li>\n<li>they should release Excel on the Xbox.<\/li>\n<li>impressed with new found excel geekery but can&#8217;t help thinking it&#8217;d be easier to, you know, just do the calculations along the way on paper.<\/li>\n<li>Just discovered the &#8220;Format Painter&#8221; feature in Excel (and probably other Office apps). I like.<\/li>\n<li>You know I&#8217;ve been messing with Excel too much when the menu bar scrolls off the top of a webpage and I wonder why I can&#8217;t &#8220;freeze pane&#8221; it.<\/li>\n<li>I swear I learn more advanced features in Excel by preparing for fantasy football drafts than I do in my job. And I teach it!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Bad<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>learning the hard way that looping through every cell in an excel worksheet = not so good performance. \ud83d\ude41<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft Excel&#8211;or as I call it, Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;No, I didn&#8217;t want to get anything useful done today&#8221; Application.<\/li>\n<li>Dear Microsoft, do you really think that \u2018undo\u2019 in Mac Excel should undo me changing the zoom? Seriously?<\/li>\n<li>I wonder how many spreadsheets in the world have two extra, unused sheets thanks to Excel&#8217;s default (and what their carbon footprint is).<\/li>\n<li>The gods of formatting are angered. May my offering of a normalized excel chart with properly drawn lines be pleasing&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>i love excel like i love getting a tetanus shot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Ugly<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Worked on taxes in excel for 3 hours. lost the whole thing. I&#8217;m cryin&#8217; and heading to the fridge.<\/li>\n<li>Nursing head from 5h of excel budgeting on office big sceen. So not designed to be group activity.<\/li>\n<li>A hierarchical crap-ton of excel spreadsheets glued together with smb file sharing is, unfortunately, still not a RDBMS:)<\/li>\n<li>Just discovered a big mistake in the excel sheet has caused an assumption that we still have loads more money. Oh the pain.<\/li>\n<li>just updated a complex and possibly the ugliest excel in existence &#8211; mea culpa &#8211; i will attend to aesthetics when client agrees content \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>Just wasted my morning writing an Excel macro so idiots can do a job that we have 100 better ways of doing anyway. *seethes*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>And my favourite comment of the week:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Watching Excel churn like a Valium-saturated Amish buttermaker.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If nothing else, at least these weekly Twitters let you know that you&#8217;re not alone in your love\/hate relationship with Excel. This week we look at the Good, the Bad, and the downright Ugly. The Good I&#8217;d be happy if they&#8217;d switch to Excel. Anything&#8217;s better than ferreting the unanswered questions of out a pile &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/16\/excel-twitters-20080816\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitters 20080816&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}